Example sentences of "[vb pp] a few [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Put it this way , I was approached a few months ago by a couple of guys in one of my clubs who said that they wanted to see the gaffer . |
| 2 | On the way they 've run up Ben Nevis and Snowdonia … swum across Loch Lomond and Derwent Water and cycled the rest of the way … they 're hoping to raise thousands for charity and after 1200 miles have earned a few days off … |
| 3 | Without it , my version occupied a few seconds under fifteen minutes . |
| 4 | She might still have shed a few tears when the dogs were put down but those tears could have represented a fitting tribute of respect to lovely creatures whom human beings treat so shabbily . |
| 5 | The state of emergency was lifted a few days later after pollution levels had fallen . |
| 6 | Although the large Gothic window of the chapel was replaced by a smaller one , and bay windows were added a few years later , it is still , in Pugin 's own words , ‘ the only modern building that is complete in every part in the ancient style ’ . |
| 7 | If only it had come a few years earlier . |
| 8 | The fact that you have enjoyed a few jars together will not cloud a journalist 's judgement . |
| 9 | At the Chalk Farm stop an attractive , freckled schoolgirl , about sixteen , in a smart navy uniform and white blouse , had got on and sat a few seats away . |
| 10 | Then , even as it dawned on her that the flowers had probably been placed there by lovers , so , as she looked up again into the dark eyes of the tall Czechoslovakian , she all at once knew why it was that her breath had caught a few seconds ago . |
| 11 | Andrew Fowler was caught a few days later when police discovered the caravan at the girl 's former home . |
| 12 | These concerns were forgotten a few days later when Diana rose at dawn and travelled to the Lambourn home of Nick Gaselee , Charles 's trainer , to watch him ride his horse , Allibar . |
| 13 | ‘ Only installed a few weeks back . |
| 14 | Her car was parked a few yards away from the building . |
| 15 | They all know that the Bill has been brought to the House in this form only because of the catastrophe of what happened on the Bills that were guillotined a few years ago — the poll tax Bills . |
| 16 | You did say er , Bishop that you were going to be frank and you certainly turned a few corners there for us to think about . |
| 17 | They had only met a few days ago . |
| 18 | Looking back , they would have done a few things quite differently , but they certainly did not conform to the view taken by some authorities that they encountered , that they are children who have ruined their lives and wasted their education . |
| 19 | This new method of composition can be seen clearly by comparing an etching of a figure done as an illustration for Max Jacob 's Saint Matorell and securely datable to Cadaquès , with a drawing done a few months earlier . |
| 20 | ‘ I was shooting a lot of travel features at the time and had done a few aerials just to try something new . |
| 21 | ‘ It is chilling to go among strangers , ’ he had written a few days earlier , ‘ & I leave a lovely country . ’ |
| 22 | And he had the article written a few years ago about the missing Tsarist treasures . |
| 23 | This information is relevant to plans for local advertising , leaflet distribution , and for determining the potential for opening another branch to be sited a few kilometres away . |
| 24 | On the death of his wife Lambarde feared he might lose the right to stay at Halling and petitioned a request to Lord Burghley through his friend Lord Cobham , to ask for custody of Maximilian and a lease to the Palace , which was granted a few days later . |
| 25 | He was ambushed a few hours later and shot dead . |
| 26 | ‘ He only found out what he 'd missed a few years ago when some German came in asking questions . |
| 27 | Her question was answered a few minutes later when Matthew himself came outside and saw her at the window . |
| 28 | The trolley had been pushed a few feet away and my handbag removed from my shopping bag . |
| 29 | Frederick II himself had argued a few years earlier that ‘ useful hard-working people should be guarded as the apple of one 's eye , and in wartime recruits should be levied in one 's own country only when the bitterest necessity compels ’ . |
| 30 | Loc stared hard at her for a moment then glanced out across the clearing again , remembering suddenly the expression he 'd seen a few minutes before on the Frenchman 's face . |